How cashback sites track completed offers

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I am wondering how cashback sites are able to track completed affiliate offers.
I can get round the fact that each member is giving a userid, but how does the site know if they have completed an offer and automatically update their database?
does anyone knows an open source script that does the above ?
 


Some of the affiliate networks offer SOAP/API integration so you could simply pass a user ID as a SUB ID to the offer and then just check the offer automatically for a matching SUB ID. The only problem that I can't overcome is once the offer is complete, how do you redirect back to the original website for say a second offer?
 
The user ID feedback works only if the member signs up for the new offer using the same user name and/or email. Somebody correct me if I'm wrong.

Does this work if the member is only completing the offer using an email and zip code submit?
 
Don't worry about redirecting back to your site. Just use popups to the offers so your site is always open.

certel said:
Some of the affiliate networks offer SOAP/API integration so you could simply pass a user ID as a SUB ID to the offer and then just check the offer automatically for a matching SUB ID. The only problem that I can't overcome is once the offer is complete, how do you redirect back to the original website for say a second offer?
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You use session IDs to track which user completes offers. So whenever someone hits your incentive site you store their session ID in a database table and append that session ID to every affiliate link. Then you just cross-reference the session ID in your database to the session ID that completed the offers.

HellaGood said:
The user ID feedback works only if the member signs up for the new offer using the same user name and/or email. Somebody correct me if I'm wrong.

Does this work if the member is only completing the offer using an email and zip code submit?
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I use a script for my incentive site, pm me for more info. You contact your affiliate network and get postbacks setup, so whenever an offer is completed, your script is notified and the credit is given to the user automatically.
 
I read somewhere that some use a combination of cookies and images.

When you click the affiliate link, they place a cookie in your browser and when you get to the "thank you" page (or whatever) there's an image that tracks it.
 
A lot of networks, such as ours, allow you place a postback url that gets called by their server when a conversion occurs. They can populate the url with a campaign ID and a subid so you know in real-time when a conversion occurs and which member generated it.
 
I had an incentive site set up and what I did was modify the php script so that any time the user clicked through to the offers page, it would add a sub ID of their user name
 
This is really ghetto and not very efficient, but I promoted a high paying offer through a heavy content site and had users email me for their unique url which contained a sub id. It required manual work but it was the only way I knew how. On a positive note, it screened out those not really interested so the conversions were good from the people who emailed me.
 
if anyone has any incentive type scripts for sale or avail, please PM me. in the market for a reliable script for a site. looking to track via user id's for tracking. using azoogle, incentaclick, and copeac for offers if that helps.

thanks...
 
sknydave said:
I had an incentive site set up and what I did was modify the php script so that any time the user clicked through to the offers page, it would add a sub ID of their user name
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That's alright, but sometimes the visitor just clicks through to the offer and don't actually complete it then.
 
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